When I began writing my first novel, Ethereal Imprints, I didn’t have an outline, a plan for what the story would become. The plot that I had created and the characters that I’d made were all mythical and fantastical, and I was making everything up as I went along. For this reason, it took me a LONG time to write, and then a longer time to figure out how to publish the novel. Altogether, creating Ethereal Imprints, the final product, took 5 years! For Arcadian Divinity, it didn’t take as long to publish, since I knew what I was doing the next time around. But I didn’t outline that novel either, so the entire story took 17 months to write! When it came to publishing Arcadian Divinity, unfortunately there were some setbacks, but everything turned out alright, and the novel will be released and out in the world in just a few days!

The good thing about not outlining my stories is that I have learned my lesson with my third novel, Revived Awareness! I have had the idea in my head for this story since I was 16, WAY before the idea for Ethereal Imprints came to me. Now, years later, I know what I’m doing, and I know how to self-publish, so it makes things A LOT easier. I also have realized that I had to outline Revived Awareness in order to finally finish the novel and get the idea out of my head and onto the page. I had created an outline for Revived Awareness, and based on that, I started to do chapter by chapter summaries. Basically, I’d summarize each chapter, so that I knew what to write. Currently, I finished the chapter summaries, and have started to handwrite what is going to happen in each chapter, and then later type what I have written into a Word document. It is A LOT to do, but I love it! So, the process of publishing Revived Awareness is the fastest among the 3 novels that I have written so far! Again, because I’m done with planning and the chapter summaries, Revived Awareness might come out this year, or it might not. I have to just get the ideas on the page and out of my brain currently.

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I have great news! I have officially sent the Arcadian Divinity manuscript to Washington D.C. for the copyright! I sent it to the Copyright Office. I will be getting a form from them in a few weeks to a few months, depending on how long or short everything gets processed. The copyright registration was the last thing to do for getting Arcadian Divinity ready, so now all I have to do is hit publish! I really hope everyone loves it when you all read it.

Now that I have completed Arcadian Divinity, I am working on planning out the rest of Revived Awareness, as well as reading over the sequel to Ethereal Imprints! The title for the second book in the series is Ethereal Afterworld. I am going to get the front cover for it, as well as read through it again to see where I left off. There are 20 chapters in the sequel so far, so I just need to refresh my brain, read it, and plot out the rest of it so it won’t take long to write.

Arcadian Divinity is still coming out in March, and if I am able to plot it out and write it fast, so will Revived Awareness! I’m hoping to get Revived Awareness out later this year, but I don’t know. Maybe it will work, maybe not. I am also working on Ethereal Afterworld, so there is a sequel to Ethereal Imprints in the works! I have a lot of book projects lately. It keeps me busy, but it is also very fun!

I hope everyone enjoyed this post, and I will be typing another one very soon!

I hope everyone had a great New Year’s, and that 2024 is going well so far! I am typing this blog post to update everybody on Arcadian Divinity. I currently have gotten the interior manuscript back from Miblart, the company from Ukraine.

I wanted a paperback, a hardcover, and an ebook for Arcadian Divinity, and once I got the finalized files I looked at the sizes and page numbers for the print versions. This novel is massive! The hardcover is a little larger than a 6×9 book, while the paperback is a little larger than a 5×8. These were the same sizes for the hardcover and paperback for Ethereal Imprints. The amount of pages for Ethereal Imprints is 274 for the hardcover, while the paperback is 316. Arcadian Divinity, by comparison, is 378 for the hardcover, while the paperback is 440! So, my new novel is A LOT bigger than my debut!

I am currently waiting for the full cover wrap for Arcadian Divinity, meaning the spine and the back for the novel. All I had before was just the front cover in order to see what the main character would look like, as well as matching the character on the cover to the character that was in my mind. Everything is going smoothly though, now that I am reaching the release date for this novel! 🙂

I hope everyone is having an amazing day, and I will be typing another post very soon!

The concept for Arcadian Divinity was something that I had in my head for a while, an idea that stayed in my brain throughout the span of time that I wrote Ethereal Imprints. I consistently would have the thought of a story with an angel, all while I was focusing on a different project with different characters. Even though one of them is similar to one character in Ethereal Imprints, the idea for what then became Arcadian Divinity was unique.

I did have inspiration for the novel, but I wanted to make sure that it was a contrast from similar ideas. After all, I cannot copy directly from any other author’s concepts. I was able to use different pieces from many places, and then spin it around to make the concept my own, as well as making it eclectic. One of the movies that I was thinking about when I wrote Arcadian Divinity I hadn’t fully seen until well after I finished the first draft! I had only seen parts of the film, but bits and pieces were in my mind as I wrote Arcadian Divinity. That movie was City of Angels. I also got inspired by The Green Mile. As a result, there are parts to the novel that have qualities to those two movies.

Many of the ideas for my novels just fall into my head randomly, and then I find some inspiration and begin writing the novel by hand. After that, I transfer what I’ve written into a Word document. I handwrite parts, and then I transfer them. I repeat the process until I am completely done. By the time I finish the novel, the manuscript is a GIGANTIC Word document! After that, I begin the publishing process.

It has been quite a journey to publish Arcadian Divinity, but it has also been a fun one! Currently, I have given the manuscript to Miblart.com, the cover designer/ formatter, so the novel can be finalized. I will be getting the final version soon, and then will have to do a few more things to publish, but the release date for Arcadian Divinity is March 8, 2024!

I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday, and I will be typing another post soon!

Hello! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I have some more news regarding Arcadian Divinity! I have gotten through the final read of the novel and will be giving it to the cover designer/formatter next week. There are a few more things that I need to do in order to publish the book, but I finally have a release date for this novel that I have been attempting to publish for over a year now. The release date will be March 8th, 2024.

I hope everybody has a great day, and I will be posting again very soon!